Workers' Compensation News

Labor advocates say they intend to push for legislation to fix the state law on disability retirements for state workers who suffer workplace injuries, after an appellate court judge said the statute's definition of "accident" is difficult to apply to first responders.
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Cybersecurity, the future workforce and insure tech opportunities are among the topics that will be discussed during the American Society of Workers’ Compensation Professionals, or AmComp, annual conference next month.
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The Supreme Court of Tennessee’s Special Workers’ Compensation Appeals panel ruled that a worker’s decision to forego corrective surgery because of his pre-existing heart condition did not justify a greater shift in liability from his employer to the Second Injury Fund.
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American Insurance Group and its affiliates dropped a civil lawsuit against two-dozen companies and providers it sued last year for unspecified damages resulting from the kickback scheme at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach.
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Employers could get another round of rate reductions after notification by the Department of Insurance that insurers no longer will be forced to pay assessments into the Second Injury Fund.
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Charlotte workers’ compensation defense attorney Amanda Witzke has been appointed to serve as a deputy commissioner for the North Carolina Industrial Commission.
Amanda Witzke
Industrial Commission Chairman Charlton Allen announced Witzke’s appointment last week.
Witzke joins the Industrial Commission from the law firm of Willson Jones Carter & Baxley, which represents employers and carriers in workers’ compensation and liability matters in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.
She holds a bachelor’s and law degree from the University of North Carolina a...
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A long-gestating proposal to create an intermediate court of appeals in West Virginia has gained approval in the West Virginia Senate.
Sen. Patricia Rucker
The chamber passed Senate Bill 341 along party lines on Thursday, with all but one Democrat voting against it, The Register-Herald newspaper of Beckley, West Virginia, reported.
Business and insurance interests back SB 341, saying an intermediate appellate court system would create “some predictability and better case law,” as West Virginia Insurance Federation president Jill Rice put it.
The West Virginia Association...
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California workers’ compensation carrier Zenith Insurance Co. has sued the Texas Institute for Surgery over more than $1 million in medical bills associated with a brain injury sustained by an injured worker while she emerged from anesthesia after ankle surgery.
Zenith writes that 38-year-old Tyra Price’s brain injury “would not have occurred but for the negligent, careless and/or reckless conduct” of Texas Institute for Surgery, whose staff allegedly failed to keep Price’s airways clean, resulting in cardiac arrest.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in the ...
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